In 2008, Stem Cell Products Inc was acquired by fellow SBIR company Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. Stem Cell Products Inc is a stem cell company founded by UW researchers Prof. James Thomson, Prof. Igor Slukvin and Dr. Dong Chen, together with Tactics II Ventures LP, a Wisconsin venture fund. Thomson and Slukvin are scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who conduct research on human stem cells and the blood system. Dong Chen, a former UW researcher who investigated blood products, is currently a medical resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn
